Paper #1833
- Títol:
- Capital controls, corporate debt and real effects
- Autors:
- Andrea Fabiani, Martha López Piñeros, José-Luis Peydró i Paul E. Soto
- Data:
- Setembre 2021
- Resum:
- Non-US firms have massively borrowed dollars (foreign currency, FX), which may lead to booms and crises. We show the real effects of capital controls, including prudential benefits, through a firm-debt mechanism. Our identification exploits the introduction of a tax on FX-debt inflows in Colombia before the global financial crisis (GFC), and administrative, proprietary datasets, including loan-level credit register data and firm-level information on FX-debt inflows and imports/exports. Our results show that capital controls substantially reduce FX-debt inflows, particularly for firms with larger ex-ante FX-debt exposure. Moreover, firms with weaker local banking relationships cannot substitute FX-debt with domestic-debt and experience a reduction in total debt and imports upon implementation of the policy. However, our results suggest that, by preemptively reducing pre-crisis firm-level debt, capital controls boost exports during the subsequent GFC, especially among financially-constrained firms.
- Paraules clau:
- Capital controls; corporate FX-debt; real effects; macroprudential; capital inflows
- Codis JEL:
- F3; F38; F4; F6; G01; G15; G21; G28
- Àrea de Recerca:
- Finances i Comptabilitat
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